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VMware Fusion: Vulnerability (VMSA-2020-0015) (CVE-2020-3970)

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VMware Fusion: Vulnerability (VMSA-2020-0015) (CVE-2020-3970)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/26/2020
Created
06/27/2020
Added
06/26/2020
Modified
07/06/2020

Description

VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi_7.0.0-1.20.16321839, 6.7 before ESXi670-202004101-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-202005401-SG), Workstation (15.x before 15.5.5), and Fusion (11.x before 11.5.5) contain an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the Shader functionality. A malicious actor with non-administrative local access to a virtual machine with 3D graphics enabled may be able to exploit this vulnerability to crash the virtual machine's vmx process leading to a partial denial of service condition.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-fusion-upgrade-11_5_5

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